Historians and Their Data: The Complex Shift from Nation-State Approaches to the Study of People’s Transcultural Lives

From the 1980s, a shift from nation-state approaches to the study of people's agency and transcultural lives occurred among both scholars in the countries of departure and those in the North and South American countries of arrival. In this historiographic assessment Hoerder emphasizes the resul...

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Published inJournal of American ethnic history Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 85 - 96
Main Author Hoerder, Dirk
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Champaign Transaction Periodicals Consortium 01.07.2006
University of Illinois Press
Subjects
Asian Americans
Cross cultural studies
Cultural studies
Ethnic Studies
Ethnicity
Ethnological methods
Forecasts and trends
Forum: Future Directions in American Immigration and Ethnic History
Historians
History
Human migration
Identity
Immigration
Labor migration
Men
Migrant communities
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Nation states
Political migration
Practice
Research methodology
Social history
United States history
Works
United States
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Summary:From the 1980s, a shift from nation-state approaches to the study of people's agency and transcultural lives occurred among both scholars in the countries of departure and those in the North and South American countries of arrival. In this historiographic assessment Hoerder emphasizes the resulting international cooperation.
Bibliography:25th Anniversary Commemorative Issue
ISSN:0278-5927
1936-4695
DOI:10.2307/27501745